Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, March 15 2018
Thursday of the Fourth week of Lent
Thursday of the Fourth week of Lent
1. ReadingBook of Exodus
32,7-14.]The LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once to your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved.
]They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it and crying out, 'This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!'
]“I see how stiff-necked this people is," continued the LORD to Moses.
]Let me alone, then, that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation."
]But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying, "Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand?
]Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and exterminate them from the face of the earth'? Let your blazing wrath die down; relent in punishing your people.
]Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.'"
]So the LORD relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.
Psalms
106(105),19-20.21-22.23.]Our fathers made a calf in Horeb
and adored a molten image;
]They exchanged their glory
for the image of a grass-eating bullock.
]They forgot the God who had saved them,
who had done great deeds in Egypt,
]Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham,
terrible things at the Red Sea.
]Then he spoke of exterminating them,
but Moses, his chosen one,
withstood him in the breach
to turn back his destructive wrath.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
5,31-47.]Jesus said to the Jews: "If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true.
]But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true.
]You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth.
]I do not accept testimony from a human being, but I say this so that you may be saved.
]He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.
]But I have testimony greater than John's. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me."
]Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
]and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent.
]You search the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf.
]But you do not want to come to me to have life.
]I do not accept human praise;
]moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.
]I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.
]How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?
]Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
]For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.
]But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
St. Zachary(Pope († 752))
SAINT ZACHARY Pope ( 752) Pope Zachary succeeded Pope Gregory III in 741. When the dukes of Spoleto and Benevento rebelled against King Luitprand, Pope Zachary risked his life to save the clergy and the Roman people. Hence, King Luitprand restored the Church's properties and released the captives without ransom. Pope Zachary maintained the Church's cohesion even while Islamic armies invaded Spain and Anatolia. He established new dioceses in Germany and was the confidant of French and Italian kings. He also exonerated Virgilius, a priest, and restored St. Boniface's relationship with Odilo, the duke of Bavaria. Pope Zachary forbade human trafficking. He paid the ransom for slaves that Venetians sold to the Moors and later outlawed human trafficking in the city-state. He also adorned Rome with sacred buildings, built foundations for the poor and provided oil for the lamps in St. Peter's Church. Hepassed away in March 752.
St. Louise of Marillac(Religious (1591-1660))
Saint Louise of Marillac (1591-1660) St. Louise de Marillac was born on August 12, 1591. She was educated by Dominican nuns in Poissy, north-central France. She desired to become a nun, but took her confessor's advice and married Antony LeGras, an official in the queen's service, in 1613. After Antony's death in 1625, St. Louise met St. Vincent de Paul, who became her spiritual adviser. With docility to the Holy Spirit, she generously devoted her life to working with him. She helped direct his Ladies of Charity in their work of caring for the sick, the poor and the neglected. In 1633, St. Louise set up a training center in her home for the Ladies of Charity. Her center was the beginning of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. She took vows in 1634 and attracted many cooperators. In 1642, St. Vincent approved four members' consecration. The community thus became part of St. Vincent's Congregation of the Missions with St. Louise as superior. The Sisters of Charity were formally approved in 1655. St. Louise traveled all over France and established her Sisters in hospitals, orphanages and other institutions. Since then, the Congregation has spread all over the world. She wascanonized by Pope Pius XI in 1934. She was declared patroness of social workers by Pope John XXIII in 1960.
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